The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 88

When she had ridden for some time the evil spirits came forth and said, ‘Here comes Peter’s horse and Peter’s hound; but Peter himself is not with them.’

Who acts: Spirit, evil spirits, Peter · What happens: ride, come, say, not be · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spirit, evil spirits, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ridden	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ridden	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ridden	aux
4	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ridden	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spirits	det
9	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirits	amod
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
17	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 comes	advmod
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 horse	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Peter	case
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hound	cc
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hound	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Peter	case
25	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horse	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 them	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 them	cc
28	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 them	nsubj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 Peter	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 them	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 them	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	Spirit			time		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the evil spirits				forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the evil spirits not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	present		Peter's horse and Peter's hound	here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
5	not is	present	Peter horse				with nuts = nut	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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